With sales over Rs 10,000 crore in the last financial year, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev's Patanjali has emerged as one of the biggest brands in India in recent times.

However, it seems that even the fringe benefits of Patanjali's
success have not been reaching its hard working and dedicated employees, who
too have played a major role in the brand's remarkable rise.

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In an interview with Mint, former CEO of Patanjali, SK Patra, made
a few interesting revelations.

"Patanjali pay very little to the people who work for them. Babaji
(Baba Ramdev) calls it 'seva'. For instance, I was doing two jobs there – at
Patanjali Ayurved and Patanjali Food Park. They had promised to pay for both.
But he would announce to everyone that 'Patraji has come to do seva. Right now
he is drawing salary, but soon, he won't even take that…" Patra was quoted by
Mint as saying.

However, ironically, Patra, who's an IIT and IIM alumnus, did not
want to do seva and demanded money for the services he had been providing.

Patra further goes on to say, "I used to respond, 'No, I want
money.'… I said I don't need it for myself. I have a family. I need money for
my family, to support them and my relatives. Then Babaji relented and gave me a
salary for one of the two jobs that I was performing. But basically his
argument was – I have to offer free seva to his host of companies."

According to Patra, he left the company due to differences between
their words and deeds.